mud-lands

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• Mud

  ·vt To bury in mud. II. Mud ·vt To make muddy or turbid. III. Mud ·noun Earth and water mixed so a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• mud

  A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. Se...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Bad lands

  ·- Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposi...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cuttle's Lands

  Lands and houses called Cuttle's Lands near the church of St. Dunstan in the East (Strype, ed. 1720,...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bottom-lands

  In the Western States, this name is given to the rich flat land on the banks of rivers, which in New...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• gally-lands

  rather GALTY-LANDS, full of sand-galls. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Sea mud

  ·- A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; — calle...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• mud lark

  A fellow who goes about by the water side picking up coals, nails, or other articles in the mud. Als...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mud-fat

  adj. fat as mud, very fat. 1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 142: «There's half th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• mud-fish

  n. a fish of Westland, New Zealand, Neochanna apoda, Gunth. Guenther says Neochannais a «degraded f...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• mud-lark

  n. another name for the Magpie-lark, Grallina picata (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• mud-hen

  The common name of the Virginia Rail ornithologists. It inhabits small streams and marshes. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mud-turtle

  The popular name of a reptile common in all parts of the United States. Marsh Tortoise and Mud Terra...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• drift-mud

  Consisting chiefly of an argillaceous earth, brought down by the rivers, floated about, and successi...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mud-drags

  Implements and machines for clearing rivers and docks. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mud or ballast dredger

  A vessel of 300 tons or more, fitted with steam-engine beams and metal buckets. By this powerful mac...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mud-fish

  The Lepidosiren, a very remarkable fish of the Gambia and other African rivers. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mud-hole

  An orifice with steam-tight doors in a marine engine, through which the deposit is removed from the ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mud-larks

  People who grovel about bays and harbours at low water for anything they can find. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mud-lighter

  Large heavy punts which receive the mud or other matter from a dredging vessel. It is the Marie Salo...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mud-pattens

  Broad clogs used for crossing mud-lands in the south of England by those who take sea-fowl. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mud-shores

  Are not unfrequent on an open coast. The most remarkable instance, perhaps, is that of the Guiana; t...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• «unlock the lands.»

  A political cry in Victoria,meaning open up for Free-selection (q.v.) the landsheld by squatters on ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris